Nick's Thoughts🙇‍♂️💭

Space City Dev Blog contains thoughts, engineering notes, and technical explorations by Nick Prasad. Built for fast reading, clean typography, and high accessibility with full dark mode support.

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• Scaling PostgreSQL Reads Without Sharding

  17 Sep, 2026

  How a three-node streaming-replication cluster, a Layer-4 proxy, and one very opinionated planner setting turned a contended database into a read tier that stays out of its own way.

• Adding new posts in AstroPaper theme

  Updated:2 Jun, 2026

  Some rules & recommendations for creating or adding new posts using AstroPaper theme.

• How to configure AstroPaper theme

  Updated:2 Jun, 2026

  How you can make AstroPaper theme absolutely yours.

• AstroPaper 6.0

  17 May, 2026

  AstroPaper v6: a from-scratch rewrite on Astro v6, Tailwind v4, and a new config system.